Romans 8:15-16

The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 8:12-17

The Spirit of adoption. In the previous section we have found "Paradise restored," through the Spirit destroying sin and thereby death within us, first in the soul and then in the body. But this experience of spiritual-mindedness is realized on the line of God's adopting love. The emancipating Spirit is the Spirit of adoption. Let us notice the stages as here presented by the apostle. I. OUR OBLIGATION IS NOW TO THE SPIRIT , AND NOT TO THE FLESH . ( Romans 8:12... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 8:12-30

The privileges and responsibilities of the children of God. The apostle in these verses makes a high claim for believers—the claim of being children of God. In this eighth chapter he unfolds, as in a panoramic view, the whole plan of salvation. He begins with the idea that those who are in Christ Jesus are delivered from condemnation. But salvation is something more than that. It means sonship also. And step by step, verse by verse, the apostle advances, at each step unfolding some fresh... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 8:14-17

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the Spirit of adoption, wherein we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him . In Romans 8:14 is introduced a further ground for the assertion in ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 8:14-17

For the Spirit you received when you became Christians was one of sonship; our habitual earnest cry of "Abba, Father," expresses our feeling of it; the Spirit still witnesses with our spirit that we are God's children; and sonship implies heirship—heirship with Christ, through our union with whom we feel ourselves to be sons; and, if we have to share in his sufferings now, this only unites us the more to him, and fits us the more for our inheritance of eternal life with him. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 8:15-16

The Spirit received by Christians. The Holy Spirit is the gift of God to his people in Christ—"the promise of the Father;" the Comforter whose advent was foretold by Christ, accompanying Divine truth, and characterizing the new dispensation of God's mercy and love. In this passage the Spirit is mentioned, not so much as the Gift of God, as in the aspects he assumes in the conscious experience of God's people. I. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE SPIRIT OF LIBERTY . Man in a state... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Romans 8:15

The spirit of bondage - The spirit that binds you; or the spirit of a slave, that produces only fear. The slave is under constant fear and alarm. But the spirit of religion is that of freedom and of confidence; the spirit of children, and not of slaves; compare the note at John 8:32-36.Again to fear - That you should again be afraid, or be subjected to servile fear - This implies that in their former state under the Law, they were in a state of servitude, and that the tendency of it was merely... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Romans 8:16

The Spirit - The Holy Spirit. That the Holy Spirit here is intended, is evident,Because this is the natural meaning of the expression; Because it is of the Holy Spirit that the apostle is mainly treating here; Because it would be an unnatural and forced construction to say of the temper of adoption that it bore witness. Beareth witness - Testifies, gives evidence.With our spirit - To our minds. This pertains to the adoption; and it means that the Holy Spirit furnishes evidence to our minds that... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Romans 8:14-16

Romans 8:14-16. For as many as are led, guided and governed, by the Spirit of God As a Spirit of truth and grace, of wisdom and holiness; they are the sons of God That is, they stand related to God, not merely as subjects to their king, or servants to their master, but as children to their father; they are unspeakably near and dear to God, being spiritually begotten of him, and partaking of his nature. See on John 1:12. For ye Who are real Christians; have not Since you believed on... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Romans 8:1-17

Victory through the Spirit (8:1-17)The reason believers can have victory through Christ is that the power of the indwelling Spirit of Christ is greater than the power of the old sinful nature. The downward pull of the sinful nature may be likened to the downward pull of the earth’s gravity. A stone thrown into the air will fall to the ground, because it has no life or power to overcome the force of gravity. A bird thrown into the air will fly away, because it has a living power that enables it... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Romans 8:15

have . Omit. the = a. spirit . App-101 . bondage . App-190 . adoption = sonship. Greek. huiothesia. Occurs here, Romans 8:23 ; Romans 9:4 .Galatians 1:4 , Galatians 1:5 .Ephesians 1:5 . An "adopted" child may partake of all the privileges of the family, yet it is not begotten and born in the family. But the subjects of this verse are begotten of the Spirit (John 3:6 ) and are, therefore, sons of God by spiritual generation. It is thus a real sonship-spirit that enables them to cry,... read more

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